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Lesson 1 Day 3: What's In The Box?

Project Description: 

Students will finish creating objects to fill their boxes using three-dimensional design. After that, students will participate in an informal sticky note critique. 

Essential Understanding: 

Artists use symbol and form to tell their own stories through three-dimensional design.

 

Inquiry/Learning Target: 

Students can use art to tell a personal story. 

 

Key Concepts:

  • Symbol

  • Three-dimensional Composition

  • Form

 

Skills: 

  • Listening

  • Creating with clay

 

Art Focus: 

Creating three-dimensional objects to tell a story 

 

Literary Focus: 

Students are writing on sticky notes their thoughts about classmates artwork. 

 

 

Documentation:

Students continued to create their clay object and still made new discoveries below are videos and pictures that display their art-making process.

Some students explored more with color mixing as shown in the two videos below. The student on the left discovered that you can mix multiple colors and twist the clay to create a unique effect, he called it "The color twister worm." The student on the right also experimented with color mixing by adding multiple colors and then stretching the clay.

This student below made a discovery about how to shape the clay. She found out that you can roll a ball and stick your thumbs in the middle to make a pinch pot. Through doing this she discovered that the clay gets bigger.

This student pictured below played with water and clay.

He discovered that the clay gets really gooey and stretchy when dunking it into the water. Through this discovery, he made up his story about how he would want to lose his tooth. He described how we would lose his tooth by spilling a bucket of purple paint. When this students box was given to another student to critique the students observing the box started to have an unprompted  conversation about how they thought their classmate created this texture with his clay. 

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